CARE Sport for Social Change Initiative

Moving Forward Project

Moving Forward Project

• Partnership with Nike and Mercy Corps

• Approach– Incorporate psychosocial

programming in initial emergency response proposal, complimentary to overall emergency response

– Develop field-based model for using sport and play activities to help youth recover from emergencies

– Serve as tools for practitioners– Pilots (Peru, Kenya, China, Georgia)

• Principles– Incorporated into CARE Emergency

Toolkit– Open source– Multi-stakeholder approach

Background-Sport for Youth in Emergencies

• Psychosocial potential of sport to reduce stress and strengthen resiliency

• Space to play are first elements to disappear

• Growing evidence of sport’s role to address cognitive, emotional and social skills

• Importance of including psychosocial component as part of emergency response and in initial proposal

Moving Forward Toolkit

• Toolkit– Manual

• Preparation • Assessment• Workshop (3-day)• Transition

– Templates – Activity Guide– Sport Kit (1 kit per 30

youth participants)

Preparation TransitionAssessment

• Include MF psychosocial programming in initial emergency grant proposal

– Estimate up to $50,000 for 6-month implementation• Identify coordinator (CARE Country Office staff or external)• Select teachers/coaches/mentors from local community to

train in MF methodology• Select target youth beneficiary group• Conduct assessments• Workshop preparation

– Agenda, duration, activities• Determine sport kit provision

– Local purchase / production• Post-Training Considerations

– Who? Where? When?

Preparation TransitionAssessment

• Pre-Assessment• Baseline surveys of trained mentors, youth

participants, and youth control group

• Post-Assessment at 6-month conclusion

Preparation TransitionAssessment

• Determine CARE direct implementation or identify partners

• Estimate cost of continued programming• Determine when and how to expand program; target

wider/new beneficiary group• Adapt MF methodology to address:

– Health education– Peace-building– Gender equality– Social inclusion– Other

Lessons Learned• Trauma too often underestimated and need to

address trauma in both youth and adult mentors• Incorporate Moving Forward/psychosocial

programming into Country Offices’ EPP and initial emergency response proposal, not as stand-alone program

• Program duration longer than 3 months• Emphasize to mentors how to embed thematic

messages into the physical activities• Commitment letters signed by mentors stress

community ownership of the program

Next Steps• Preposition sport kits at key CARE regional offices

• Train CARE emergency responders in MF methodology

• Ensure every Country Office has copy of MF manual

• Provide Country Offices with template language on psychosocial programming to include in their emergency response proposals

• Online accessibility– Download documents at www.sportanddev.org

– Fully interactive version on www.insdc.net

– View MF Georgia training video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4yVq9jj47M

– Make MF manual a live document for social networking and peer revisions, open for input/feedback from all users

– CARE and Mercy Corps train and advocate incorporation among ECB partners